Wilson Lumpkin

Wilson Lumpkin (14 January 1783-28 December 1870) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Georgia's at-large district (DR) from 4 March 1815 to 3 March 1817 (succeeding George Troup and preceding Thomas W. Cobb) and from 4 March 1829 to 1831 (preceding Augustin Smith Clayton), and from the 4th district from 4 March 1827 to 4 March 1829 (preceding Hugh A. Haralson). He went on to serve as Governor of Georgia from 9 November 1831 to 4 November 1835 (succeeding George R. Gilmer and preceding William Schley) and in the US Senate from 22 November 1837 to 3 March 1841 (succeeding John Pendleton King and preceding John M. Berrien).

Biography
Wilson Lumpkin was born near the Dan River in Virginia in 1783, and he moved to Oglethorpe County, Georgia a year later. He became a lawyer in Athens, Clarke County, and he served in the State House of Representatives from 1804 to 1812 and in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817 and from 1827 to 1831, as Governor from 1831 to 1835, and in the US Senate from 1837 to 1841. He died in 1870.